Carioca Serie A duel: Close contest expected between Boavista and Bangu

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Competition: Brazil Carioca Serie A
Competition: Sun 06.March
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Elcyr Resende de Mendonça (12000 seats)

Bangu have restored their energy following their 1-4-fixture vs Boavista and are eager to meet Boavista. Here's all the details!

Insights:
  • Boavista have the most conceded goals (16) in Carioca Serie A
  • Bangu have the fewest scored goals (5) in Carioca Serie A

These teams are so close in distance that this match is special, a derby with local pride the main prize.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Boavista form and stats

2-1-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Carioca Serie A numbers at home for Boavista, who have the most conceded goals (16) in Carioca Serie A, so far this season.

The Boavista followers enjoyed the previous fixture, watching their team host Bangu and win 4-1.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Madureira (1-2).

This is expected to be a close game, with Boavista perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Boavista as a small favourite), we find nine games. Boavista has won five of these, drawn one and lost three.

A decent goal production from Boavista in their home games so far, with 7 goals from 4 league matches.

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Bangu form and stats

There's been little loot from Bangu's travels as they have only collected 3 points from 6 away games in the Carioca Serie A. Bangu only have 1 win to counter their 5 defeats and 0 draws. It's all red in the travel logs of Bangu, having lost five matches in a row as the visiting team.

Bangu lost away at Boavista (1-4) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick.

That result followed a home victory 2-0 versus Audax Rio.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Bangu in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Bangu, one draw and five defeats.

Bangu are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 2 goals from 6 away games. As for defending, Bangu rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 10 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Boavista - Bangu 4-1 was the score in these squads' last H2H match, played this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - two - three (Boavista wins - draws - Bangu wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.

Boavista missing players

Bangu missing players

Boavista Bangu
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
10 4 1 Played P 0 6 10
3 2 1 Won W 0 1 2
3 1 0 Drew D 0 0 3
4 1 0 Lost L 0 5 5
13 7 1 Scored S 0 2 5
16 4 0 Conceded C 0 10 11
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 80%
90% 75% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 50% 50%
50% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 17% 10%
20% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 10%
20% 25% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 17% 10%
70% 75% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 17% 20%
10% 25% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 17% 40%
20% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 67% 60%
 
4.4 4.2 4 Corners for (avg) C F 0 6.2 6.3
6 5.8 7 Corners against (avg) C A 0 4.8 4.1
2.9 2.8 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2 2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
7.7 6.8 5 Shots (avg) S ( 0 13.5 13.4
3.4 3 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4 4.1
38% 58% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 8% 12%
 
11.6 11.5 7 Shots against (avg) S A 0 11.5 10.3
4.2 3 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 3.7 3.3
Key stats in Carioca Serie A this season:
  • Bangu have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Bangu have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Bangu have the fewest scored goals (5) in Carioca Serie A
  • Bangu have the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in Carioca Serie A
  • Bangu haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Boavista have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Boavista have scored more than double the goals of Bangu.
  • Boavista have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Carioca Serie A
  • Boavista have the most conceded goals (16) in Carioca Serie A
  • Boavista have the most conceded goals in the second half (12) in Carioca Serie A
  • Boavista have the most dropped points from leading position (10) in Carioca Serie A
  • Boavista haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Fluminense 10 9 0 1 16 2 6 5 0 1 9 2 4 4 0 0 7 0 14 27
2 Flamengo 10 7 2 1 21 8 6 4 1 1 14 5 4 3 1 0 7 3 13 23
3 Vasco da Gama 10 6 1 3 16 11 5 3 1 1 7 4 5 3 0 2 9 7 5 19
4 Botafogo 9 5 1 3 17 14 5 4 0 1 11 6 4 1 1 2 6 8 3 16
5 Resende 10 3 3 4 11 14 5 2 1 2 6 8 5 1 2 2 5 6 -3 12
6 Portuguesa RJ 10 3 2 5 10 11 5 3 1 1 8 5 5 0 1 4 2 6 -1 11
7 Madureira 10 3 2 5 9 14 5 1 0 4 4 9 5 2 2 1 5 5 -5 11
8 Nova Iguacu 10 3 2 5 8 15 4 2 1 1 3 2 6 1 1 4 5 13 -7 11
9 Audax Rio 10 3 1 6 7 12 4 1 1 2 3 3 6 2 0 4 4 9 -5 10
10 Bangu 10 2 3 5 5 11 4 1 3 0 3 1 6 1 0 5 2 10 -6 9
11 Boavista 10 3 3 4 13 16 4 2 1 1 7 4 6 1 2 3 6 12 -3 5
12 Volta Redonda 9 1 2 6 10 15 6 1 1 4 9 10 3 0 1 2 1 5 -5 5

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